Move along, move along
Nothing to see here...Move along...
You ever get to the point where life just sorta makes everyone nattering about abstract shit seem...inconsequential? That's me, now. I am skimming a lot of my reader, and marking as read whole swaths of posts sight unseen. No offense. Just where I am at right now.
- Blog posts I am reading - kids, summer, art, crime in the 'hood, deciding what type of weed eater to buy.
- Blog posts I am skipping - theology, "what should we be doing?", talking instead of doing.
Not a judgment. Just where I am lately. About me, too. I want life. Not some pale discussion of it.
Don't look for any Jack Handey deep thoughts from here for a while. Sorry about that. I am done with talking. I want to try. I want to do. I want to fail. I want to live. I want to read about other people trying, doing, failing, living. "Just" living.
Save the theory. Blog about life. That goes for me, too.
11 comments:
I just want to be the first to say good luck on your path to living. I can understand were you are coming from.
Jim,
I was just researching Jack Handey for a post about my kids.
I used the saying about "Why is it raining?" - Dad: "because God is crying."
"Why is God crying?" Dad: "because of something you did."
I did tell my son before quoting Mr. Handey that I have a joke to tell. Didn't want to traumatize the poor lad.
Aside from that you might tell from my lack of posts I too have been near the same path you seem to be on and find it hard to sit in front of a computer except at work where I have to.
-Sam
i am all for blogging about life. If I ever feel the strong desire to continuously write about theology then I will go into the seminary :)
-maria
know whatcha mean ... but I'm just pulling feeds from GReader instead of mass marking as read. I'm considering keeping you though ;)
Patrick,
Thanks!
Sam,
Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
My computer time comes and goes but this is something other than that. Just...something.
Maria,
Precisely!
Chris,
Thanks! :o)
I have been pruning, too. I long ago got rid of all the "pros" in the Christian corner of the blogoverse in which I swim. Now I just keep people I genuinely like, and because of that I'd just as much prefer hearing about family or work or whatever as to read yet another lofty post. And I am more guilty of lofty posts than most, so I am not point fingers. Just looking at it all and saying, "Feh."
Maybe it's just a phase. We'll see.
Jim - Kind of a grouchy old feller, ain't ya? :-)
And yet again, in our totally separate but seemingly parallel lives, I'm tracking pretty much the same way you are right now.
The difference is that I haven't committed to long-term daily blogging like you, so I can just not-blog when I've got nothing to say. Though I seem to do a lot of not-blogging, so most people out there (if they haven't already dropped me from their reader or blogroll for inactivity anyway) probably can't tell the difference in my life now, compared to previously. Oh well.
Most of my days are pretty much the same things over and over anyway. Not exciting for an audience to hear about. But I'm learning to enjoy it a lot more minute by minute and day by day, and to rest in the simple fact that it's a damn good life I've got. Maybe it'd be more interesting if I had something to complain about. But I'm not going to make stuff up.
Also, this has nothing to do with anything, but for some reason, when I read Patrick's comment above, it made me laugh loudly, because I pictured Leslie Nielsen poking his head through the door of the cockpit and saying that.
(Yes, a long comment. Please Oh Please Mr. Blog Administrator don't delete me!)
CH,
I think I was born a grouchy old feller. :o)
Actually, the weird thing is I rarely prune inactive blogs from my reader - I mean, they're INACTIVE, so by definition they're not bothering me.
Instead I prune the ones that have high activity but over a period of time I just decide I am not interested. That said, I still follow plenty of folks.
I work with Patrick - he would appreciate that image!
Trouble with blogging about life is that first you have to go do something. Which is hard.
Here's our adventure:
http://sgworship.blogspot.com
Ruth
Ruth,
Looks great!
My high point of the week is volunteering at a local food pantry. I used to volunteer at two, but the other one was an experiment (it was mobile) and the local food bank decided it wasn't worth it. Now I wish I had something else like that to do/be a part of.
In the mean time, just living.
Cool. So what weed eater did you think was the best? :)
Heidi,
I actually wasn't the one in the market for a weedeater - my blogger friend Reverend Dan is.
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